Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 25.12.2001

Federal Law No. 174-FZ of December 18, 2001 "Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation"

The Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation was signed by the President of the Russian Federation on December 18. As compared to the earlier one, the Code has a different structure - it contains 5 parts including 55 chapters.
A number of new provisions are introduced in the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, in particular, a new restraint - house arrest. The no-leave restraint is changed and the guarantee of a public organization is abandoned.
The law brings in compliance with Article 22 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation provisions stating that a person may not be detained for more than 48 hours before a court ruling. According to the constitutional principles of freedom and privacy of citizens, detaining and house arrest are permitted only on the basis of a court ruling.
The law fixes the equality of the sides, namely: the prosecutor and defense in a court session enjoy equal rights of denial and pleading, presenting evidence, taking part in its investigation, speaking in discussion, presenting written wording for issues indicated in the Code, consideration of other issues emerging during the court hearing.
For the first time, the act of the legislation in the form of the code is supplied with the prototypes of procedural documents.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 104n of December 3, 2001 on the Amendment to the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 50n of July 6, 2001 on the Refinement of the Norms of Expenses for Reception and Servicing of Foreign Delegations and Individual Persons

Specifies that the norms of expenses for reception and servicing of foreign delegations and individual persons fixed in the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 110 n of December 31, 1999 on the refinement of the norms of expenses for reception and servicing of foreign delegations and individual persons shall loose their force from January 1, 2002. Beginning with the mentioned date, the ones being in effect are the increased norms of expenses specified by the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 50n of July 6, 2001.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on December 21, 2001. Reg. No. 3114.

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 150-T of December 18, 2001 on the Application of Some of the Normative Acts of the Bank of Russia in the Sphere of Currency Regulation and Currency Control Pursuant to the Switchover of the Member-Countries of the Economic and Currency Union to the Uniform European Currency (Euro)

Beginning with January 1, 2002, the residents shall present the following currency control documents to the authorized banks in euros: information on contracts envisaged in the Instruction of the Bank of Russia No. 83-I of June 28, 1999, purchase orders, reselling of the purchased foreign currencies, orders to transfer purchased foreign currencies when buying euros at the currency market and some other. On the basis of presented documents, the authorized banks shall draw up currency control documents using provided recalculation coefficients for national currencies into euros.
If the information was presented by residents before January 1, 2002, there is not need to present it again recalculated into euros. When the resident carries out currency operations, the authorized banks shall correct the contract currency code in the database for the credit contract and the amount of the contract, the currency being recalculated into euros at the fixed rate.